Allot of people seemed to of missed this:

[Magnesium02]

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-alot

[Darki]

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-alot

That would be my derp speeeling....spaaalling*......spaaacking*.......DAMMIT!!!

[Beetle]

If they really wanted a better gil sink they could of just added a new mount to the game that costed 3mil gil & remove the amount of gil fountains in the game. We already have 1-2 Free teleport locations. That gil adds up server wide. Also make Magic Chocobo Brushes NPC only. There the amount of gil will decrease server wide.

[Linadae]

Agreed this is a blatant abuse of customer loyalty. Personal housing in every other game I've played has been for everyone, rich and poor alike. So until this is corrected, Yoshida's lie will remain in my sig.

[Yolteotl]

Agreed this is a blatant abuse of customer loyalty. Personal housing in every other game I've played has been for everyone, rich and poor alike. So until this is corrected, Yoshida's lie will remain in my sig.

Lol I so need to snip that quote as well... not just for these forums though

[Kaethra]

I'll see if I can put this into perspective. The housing currently in the game is actually rather large. The small houses are the size of the largest in other games like EQ2 (with the exception of some premium homes you purchase with real money). The large homes are the size of guild halls in other games and usually serve that function now.

Now when I read the patch notes. I'm not going to lie, I was like holy crap... that's expensive. But then I read the quoted text by the OP in this thread, and things clicked into place. The housing plots just aren't ready yet. But there IS housing plots available. The Estates are available. I don't know about you all, but on Leviathan, there's still plots available. A lot of them. But not so many that EVERYONE can have a home.

So what does that mean? Well it becomes competitive. You can have a plot in the housing district available now. But you're going to pay a premium for it. But you get a pretty damn big place to start in. I'd imagine that the plots we get in 2.4 and the houses that go on them will be quite a bit smaller, and more affordable. Personally. I'm content to wait till then.

But lets play devil's advocate here. Lets say they SHOULD release tomorrow's housing at an affordable rate, and for the sake of argument, they DO. Lets say.. 200,000 for small, 400,000 for medium, and 1,000,000 for large (many of us could afford any of those). Many of you who are reading this, will be out of luck. There's just not enough to go around. In fact I think many of the locations will still be gobbled up by the more wealthy characters quickly anyway. Only those logging in as soon as the servers come up would have a fair shake at getting a plot.

So either way, you will be waiting till 2.4 to get your housing. Did they betray our trust? Well that assumes we -lost- something to begin with. We didn't. We got promised something and it got delayed. They didn't do it to spite us. Crap happened, and they couldn't get it out for the patch. I don't know if you all have ever done coding before, but many times it involves finding solutions to problems/issues/features that haven't been discovered yet. Its not like they have the code available from previous games. Not only wouldn't it normally be legal to take it, but in the case of FFXI, its not compatible. Sometimes you find a way to make something work by a deadline. Sometimes not.

They prioritized other things that affect the game a little more directly. And personally I'm glad for it. Lets be honest with ourselves. Personal housing affects what? Your ability to decorate and take screenshots? Maybe have a garden and make your chocobo a different color? We're not being short changed here in the very least.

So the amount of complaints cropping up is a little ridiculous to say the least. And Believe Me. I want cheaper housing too, I can't even afford the smallest house in the crappiest location. But I at least had the clear head to see exactly what is going on. You all should too. It will be better in 2.4, or if its not, I'll raise hell and brimstone along with you. But I have faith it will be better.

[RakaMaimhov]

I guess I'll just have to buy a house and grow some (insert profitable garden produce item here) to sell so I can afford to buy a house.

[Teirshin]

This is just my opinion and not everyone will agree with me but I like having a tall mountain to climb. A personal house is a very desirable goal for me and as many others have stated, for them to
I think it will make actually getting the house that much more sweet.

The thing is... and keep this in mind now... SE has been bitching and moaning since launch about how they are soooo limited with what they can do with the engine they have.... like to the point where someone asked about sorting a list alphabetically and the devs said it was going to be "difficult" to do....

You'll be lucky to even find a plot to buy once you save up for what you want, and at that point, your whole mountain climb will have been for absolutely nothing.

Now, keeping in mind how Yoshi lied about the pricing part, are you going to trust his word that in 2.4 they're going to make things "all better" and seriously expand plots?

Good luck with that.

[Bluevann]

Hadn't missed this, though Yoshida seems to have missed the major reason people are angry about: the lie about the prices.

[Lyrinn]

Doubling the number of wards from what it is now is going to be awesome.

They originally said personal housing would be cheaper than FC housing. Many months later, we see that isn't true at all.

How much would you like to bet that they overestimated their available server space or optimization or whatever and one month from now, they will come out with less than double the number of wards? I'm willing to bet quite a lot, because this is hardly the first time they've mis-estimated both their own capabilities and that of the players.